--- title: "4 Composer Quotes By Tod Machover" description: "4 Composer quotes by Tod Machover. Plus more from Tod Machover and more Composer sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/tod-machover-12406_art_i-listen-to-new-music-by-composers-who-a_1068899.jpg" --- > [I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-listen-to-new-music-by-composers-who-are-interesting-to-me-i-listen/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d2/tod-machover-12406_art_i-listen-to-new-music-by-composers-who-a_1068899.jpg) > [it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/it-s-important-as-a-composer-to-sit-in-silence-and-imagine-these/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a62/tod-machover-12406_complexes_it-s-important-as-a-composer-to-sit-in-s_2303208.jpg) > [When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/when-i-was-done-with-high-school-i-knew-that-music-was-really/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/268/tod-machover-12406_behinds_when-i-was-done-with-high-school-i-knew_2426656.jpg) > [I think the seed was planted when I was a teenager, and it took me until I got out of Juilliard. At…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-think-the-seed-was-planted-when-i-was-a-teenager-and-it-took-me/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/454/tod-machover-12406_composer_i-think-the-seed-was-planted-when-i-was_2581847.jpg) ## Other authors on Composer - [Barbara Harbach 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/barbara-harbach/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-leonard-bernstein-59681.jpg) Leonard Bernstein 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/leonard-bernstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-howard-shore-42458.jpg) Howard Shore 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/howard-shore/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-igor-stravinsky-43154.jpg) Igor Stravinsky 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/igor-stravinsky/) - [Michael Hersch 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/michael-hersch/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-ludwig-van-beethoven-61870.jpg) Ludwig van Beethoven 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/ludwig-van-beethoven/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jon-gordon-52735.jpg) Jon Gordon 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/jon-gordon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-philip-sousa-52096.jpg) John Philip Sousa 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/john-philip-sousa/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-mancini-41616.jpg) Henry Mancini 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/henry-mancini/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-esapekka-salonen-33952.jpg) Esa-Pekka Salonen 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/esa-pekka-salonen/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-brian-eno-19492.jpg) Brian Eno 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/brian-eno/) - [Benjamin Britten 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/benjamin-britten/) ## More by Tod Machover > [Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/music-seems-to-stimulate-more-parts-of-our-mind-than-almost-every/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-love-the-cello-i-love-the-physical-sense-of-an-instrument-that-s/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/you-have-to-train-your-mind-and-your-ears-but-they-re-more-like/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-went-to-the-university-of-california-santa-cruz-for-a-year-which/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/the-basic-idea-of-a-hyper-instrument-is-where-the-technology-is-built/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/perhaps-25-to-50-years-from-now-i-can-design-a-piece-of-music-no-so/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-never-liked-opera-growing-up-i-always-liked-chamber-music-or-solo/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-like-the-idea-of-imagining-a-sound-and-feeling-a-sound-and-then/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/there-were-a-lot-of-things-happen-in-the-mid-80-s-that-all-of-a/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/one-of-my-interests-in-music-has-always-been-what-it-means-why-it/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on performing because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/the-beatles-realized-that-what-they-were-making-in-the-studio-could/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-love-bach-i-love-beethoven-i-love-mozart-i-love-the-beatles-i-love/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/my-message-is-to-forget-about-dichotomies-the-brain-opera-is-an-opera/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [I almost never these days sit down with a CD or my laptop and just listen to a piece with a score. I probably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-almost-never-these-days-sit-down-with-a-cd-or-my-laptop-and-just/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) > [I listen to a lot of music that teenagers are listening to because I'm around them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-listen-to-a-lot-of-music-that-teenagers-are-listening-to-because-i/) [Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/composer/tod-machover/#itemlist", "name": "4 Composer Quotes By Tod Machover", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. 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